Transcripts For SFGTV Citizens 20240704

Member crawford present. Member larkin present. Member mathews absent. Member pantoja present. Member sanderlin present. Xhiefdz present. Im going to read the ramaytush ramaytush ramaytush are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush rahmytoosh ohlone olonee who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. Responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. Territory. As guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders, and relatives of the Ramaytush Ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. Thank you natasha item thank you natasha item 2. Opportunity for the public to comment on any matters within the committees jurisdiction that are not on the agenda. Please line up at the 30e78d limited to 3 minutes per speaker. For the record there are no inperson comments. No telephone . unintelligible . Announced last time. All right. Then. Okay. Great. Three. 3. Discussion item possible action approval with possible modification of the minutes of the december 4, 2023, meeting. Okay. Id like to make a motion to approve. Id like to fill in the gap. Was in the item. On um, the Public Safety bond Service Pardon me program for 2016 was a gap in the tape recordering of the meeting and one of the comments was lost one was under project schedule page 29 the document they gave us a bullet second bullet item that was scheduled clearing throat the project final completion pushed to the First Quarter 202324 for the dph asked for the post my question about that what was side supposed change order will be what is the purpose of the post occupancy change order this is the answer is what the record is complete. We can aimed the minutes afterwards. Call me and well elaborate on that and clarify. Any more discussion. Member pantoja ill second the motion. Can you take a vote, please. Oh, and member crawford, aye. Member larkin, aye. Member pantoja, aye. Member sanderlin, aye. Member tung. The item passed move on to item item 2015, 2016, and 2019 Affordable Housing bond programs and possible action by the committee in response to such presentation. Good morning next slide, please. Thank you very much. Good morning member crawford and Committee Members im andrea gremer, Mayors Office of housing and Community Development. And im joined by my colleagues the Deputy Director for finance and administration and our Deputy Director for housing and johnny oliver, Mayors Office of housing and Community Development. And were going to give you you think update on the general Obligation Bond more Affordable Housing. And the agenda for this were going to start with a brief overview of the bonds and specific update on the 2015 and 2016 and next to my colleague johnny for the safety program. Id like to start what the overview. Um, every year theyre a little bit different and but i see first bullet. And for the bond i dont think anyone across the country 3d know we have a housing problem. I read an article about housing the poster child for Affordable Housing for that reason and target specific communities name employee that extremely low income and low income and medium income the categories by the percentages unintelligible . Our bonds are a little bit different than other cities bonds. And typically when the issues of the bonds really for one or two for large projects the city accesses the contractor unintelligible . You with the Affordable Housing and well only build 1 or 2 Affordable Housing project and only like a couple hundred units and in the portfolio and not an sufficient way i dont think we work with the benefit organizations partners and with project sponsors and will lend them money for part of the a project. And theyll go out and gather other Funding Sources and well deputy a property and for the general contractor and they own that at the end but the general Obligation Bond are one of several Funding Sources. But what is nice about the Committee Money it is cheaper so jump start the process and unintelligible tied to a project. So today were to talk about the its been a long time coming. Bond and prop a the 2024 that will add another 300 million to our Affordable Housing. Move on to 2015 general Obligation Bond update this is a 310 million bond passed in november of 2015. We have completed all three with the 5 funds as for 2030 a summary listed the categories were spending unintelligible and as you can see we are heavily invested in the low Income Housing 50 percent of the bond. And spined down timeline for the first and second issuance will be spent by mid 2024 and those are responses very shawl will either be reallocated and unintelligible . The third bond issuance by the end of 2024 and if you remember from last year im sure you do a lot of that is related to 26 million allocate to the educator project that is underway and for 26 million that means that the few items make up that balance are one of the project and those balances are related to the items accepting that to spend in the next few months and a small balance were to see spent by the end of 2024. This is your unit prediction summary for the 2015 bond by representative wilson where they are in development as you can see across the bond were projecting to add over 15 hundred units to the portfolio and have been completed. This is the rescinding of the educator project that is in construction and were desperately to be done by the end of this month. Ill take any questions on the bond that you have. Moving under there we say completion that is unintelligible by the end of this year. Yes. So when this comes to like finding money for the contractors and developers and i saw a list of contractors which were doing that when did the size of the project shooting for kind of like a duplex, if you will, but bigger projection is that the case . Yes. It really depends on which categories were talking about we have money set aside for a smaller more renovation that projects than the departments and um, you had a question around the small sites happen often or 4 units what is small . So a minimum is 5 units on average by respected we see in small sites and purchasing large sites is over 25 units. That answers my question. Thank you. All right. Move on to the r69sd bond update this is a 600 million bond passed in 2019 twice as big the 2015 bond with the first two issuance and we are planning to have the issuance raw figuring out which project and expecting issuance about the end of 2024. These are the bond project summarizes and the categories by ordinances as you can see we are heavily invests in the more than a third of 600 million and this is added to 5 categories senior projects. The spending by categories. From the last slide we have completely issued the category housing funds and projecting to spend by the end of 2026 and the housing is 84 percent issued and in income and preservation and projected to be fully spent in 2027 that Senior Housing really will be the bulk of this issuance. And Senior Housing will be more than one hundred Million Dollars. But we have four identified projects at the predevelopment to spend that money. And same thing with the educator housing the money will be issued by that to identify the education educator projects and a little bit different from the map we broken down a couple of categories in different colors with the down payment assistance and the and then multifamily development units. And cannabis in the production summaries and the project busy a number of units and where they are in development and the 2015 twice as many units right now really where they are in development not quite unintelligible 13 hundred in construction and 5 hundred. And ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. On the 2019 bond. I have a question about the preservation category can you talk about that. Great. February. laughter clearing throat any other questions on the. Really quick defining order the last slide clearing throat was a project on the map in the Inner Richmond district the development on the corner of 6 and geary multiple voices . With the housing. Have i check is on. Im pretty sure thats where it is. T n d c excuse me 201. 201 that sounds about right. Why think that project is funded by the 2019 bond um, i have to go back and look at the address what that project is. Yeah my apologies. It looks like it is 5 or 6 stories high i came on the bus. Excellent. I mean it is between 81 and 120 units so all right. Im going to turn it over to johnny to talk about the next one. The Public Safety program no audio . The Affordable Housing general Obligation Bond 2016 are past loan product was voted on by voters in 2015 for the existing bonds up to 260 million for the Affordable Housing that the marketrate conversion for detachment and the building stock. 80 percent ami and the maximum is 120 per ami the prohibition for the rehab work and to unerrors the building for rehab and we have talked about 25 units large sized unit and whether those includes sros and new construction not eligible for the acquisition and some level of rehab will be available. And jump over it provides for rehab it is one of the only resolution we offer for that the blow the Interest Rate and we offer a 40 year alone term for the market and Interest Rates 2019 was an average of 20 that is 4 and series b was issued in 2020 and expecting our 2024 assuming we do allocate the fund. 5. 75 what were estimating and not sure of the date yet waiting for the preservation but sometime in may of 2024. And also to add in series filed allocation have 90 billion left and want to talk about the changes to the program post covid due to the number of units were rent due to the delays in the rent have increased the debt from one point one to 1. 5 and have more cash flow and challenges we also are bundling projects together and talk about 5 and 4 unit buildings together and a cost savings across the site. And it is all i have on the program ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. Okay. Can you take Public Comment this is a oh, yeah. I answered it okay. Good. Questions . Thank you very much. Public comment. Yes. And members of the public who wish to add Public Comment on those for the record no inperson Public Comment. On this item. Move on to item number 5. 5. Discussion item possible action liaison report on the 2008 and 2012 clean and safe park go bond programs. If you good morning to everyone here and commissioners. Um, so, yeah at the last meeting i missed my report so a brief report i met with stacey from the rec and park and shannon with the port of San Francisco. Ms. Bradley had several projects including trails and mini parks and playgrounds are wellreceived and in the process of being completed. Especially fond of the completion of the Fitness Court at lake merced walking past that for a few months and to my delight the fence was down and a Fitness Center and they have the so im excited about that playground for adults and the port and our Parks Department are maximizing funds, you know, is a in fact, with the king park that is, i live up the street from that 0 is thats my report i see that all over the city. Thank you member pantoja. Is there any discussion or questions . Okay. Natasha take Public Comment. Members of the public line up at the podium and limited to 3 minutes per speaker on the record no inperson Public Comments. Thank you move on to item 6. 6. Discussion item possible action liaison report on the earthquake safety eser bond program. Thank you. Happy to present in liaison report. My liaison report is an update on the issuance and report out on the east corridor and report on the discussion i have with the project managers and in terms of status the program has bond measures in and under the 400 million authorization replacing staff is looking to clous close those out and relatively small amount of for the 2020 the bonds have issuing an aggregate of one hundred and 59 million and there are several components to it it the ones ill highlight with the fighter the facility station the disastrous for the joint project between the Emergency Response team and recreation and then the 911 response. There is more detailed information on the status of this project and done by puc Public Utilities commission and covered the quarter so any comments include the information in those reports and thank you for the Public Utilities commission for the transparency and might have as well as other interested parties. And a few not able items in the report one i think the Fire Training facility in the portion of the neighborhoods fire station at the 2020 bond will be noted that other venues but cost escalation is crowding out the fund that otherwise will be available for fire stations we have rehabilitation and understanding the inflation across the programs given the size and how much of funding in 2020 bonds and not able projects will be completed within that and i think we understand that the city of our size and the amount of infrastructure we have already been continuing to modernization so the fire stations and other projects not completed in the this bonds will be considered in the next future bond is in 2027 or 28 go back to the voters. And the other product id like to the Disaster Response and in this particular project want to express in any appreciation for the staffs thoughtfulness in approaching this as is disaster and emergencies and as recreational purpose on the day to day basis making the most of bond dollars. For the facilities tour we toured the projects earlier this month so thank you for joining me and thank chief miller for the appropriation to make it happen we visited three facilities in embarcadero and pier 22 and a half and fire station 8 that is it in south of market and fire station 5 and selected those projects to how the Bonds Program is 0 executed and the fire station not on the modernization but before and after comparison and contrast and fire station 35 is unique for as the fire station . A impressive facility and, of course, the fire boats are dispatched along the bay with the providing an essential function and facilities for fighting water and fire station 8 is in need of capital work the excuse me the firefighter at the station work around the layout and the typical system in order to provide their mission but um, that fire station as a exists today didnt because of equipment and other needs so obviously, nodding in fire station that was opted out in the location the difference between fire station 8 and 5 are yourself and appreciate the thought in fire station 5 for the interior and exterior on the premise and in increment weather and thank you for everyone that was involved in those and finally, to wrap up any report i did a discussion with the project managers and thank you, 40 for the project manager and all the project manager for their time we talked about those with antidotes for the clarity own this topic for example, discussed the Parking Facility we had i previously mentioned and spoke to the project manager 75 for Greater Transparency with the for example, and Infrastructure Requirements as i understand that the requirements for the facility power versus secondary power between penalizing and that project costs and continue to have discussions with the staff to better understand that and with following up on the capital programs we starting with some highlevel discussions with the project managers and with the puc for more detailed conversation that concludes my report. For the bond program. Thank you member tung for that thorough report and natasha any questions or comments. From the committee. I was able to tour with kim and thank you for that was quite a few of the an experience we saw some of the best facilities and we saw some of the worst of the older facilities it is running the fire the firefighter at the housekeeping it together for the construction background fixed their own lights i mean basically when member tung they use the micro wave and the refrigerator goes out that was you know, we have the best facilities and to get them up to par in San Francisco have a lot of um, building and different buildings with the fires house to see who they respond they do that as their light at the end of the tunnel along with their facilities we love their firehouse a long history i think important we continue to help our departments so those are any comments and it was that was the fire was awesome so, thank you. How old is that older facility . I think it is with designed for horses and carriages and is so old the plumbing is actually i think that is like after the earthquake like those hidden areas to get the plumbing to work right and get to the it is just been built their laundry they are washing their gear it was an open ear and closed with a skylight the skylight had issues in the room constantly. I dont know do you remember, if they mentioned the date i dont recall that fire station. There have been improvements over time but as a a way out for example, the area where they do Hazardous Material turn out not in the identical location with the laundry facility but to have reworked theyre wiring to make sure the equipment is running but not i do deal for someone to look at the panels and figure out how to equip that station. Any more discussion on that natasha take Public Comment. Public comment please line up at the podium now limited to 3 minutes per speaker. A for the record no inperson Public Comments. Okay. Thank you. Can you please move on to item no. 7. 7. Discussion item possible action liaison report on the homelessness, health, parks 2020 recovery bond program. Okay. One of our newer bond issues we been looking at this bond is the right funding for Public Utilities commission and homeless and Supportive Housing and all encompassing bond the total bond issue is was on programs to be issued 487. 5 million broke down 200 and 7 million for the facilities that provide treatment and Supportive Housing. For the homeless and Mental Illness and 200 and three 9 for parks and facility and 1. 5 for curve ramps and street structures and pedestrian right now. Two bond issues for 4 hundred and 29 the second is 8 i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of and most comprehensively for the three facility is provide treatment for the mentally aisle but for the Greater National community and the Public Utilities commission is working to reply one hundred and 7 units to Treasure Island with as existing unit obligated to be replace and the department of health has the capacity by 40 percent beyond the beds for a total of 200 and 42 step down beds from 1 hundred and 72 the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development has a memorandum of understanding when mercy housing developed this site and construction is expected to be given early 2026 and 43. 5 million for this project loan for psychotic Emergency Services the renovation zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital will have redevelopment for day rooms and care. Early demolition of old emergency room completed this was funded with the 2016 bond and the construction that begins on this it is expedited to be completed no spring of 2026 for for Supportive Housing and emergency shelters over 30 million has been issued to date the this is a 75 bed application. For permanent housing bond funds issued in 202545 newly constructed units and rehab 1 hundred and 88 acquired and planning is underway for the retrofit of two city inquired 8 three 5 turk an additional studio apartments are proposed an valencia for public adults 55 and under and construction will be completed in october of 2025 and 6 note the housing acquisition under the program has met the mayors roll in under two years the progress underway with that bond issue is great see and next move on to the status of rec and park facilities and response is one hundred and 1 million for the park and 55 for the recovery parks and 15 million for it citywide parks and 2024 bonds includes 53. 6 million for the square and 26 for the plazas and one. 7 for another project and the parks is covered before the bond month in the construction the exception is the playground that still with construction expected to be done in 2020 and the fpl the status the Public Utilities commission rightofway street programs of the 41. 5 million and bonds fund dedicated for this project the majority of it is 1. 5 billion and all of those bonds issued in 2021. The street row as far as will cover three hundred city blocks and 4 hundred and 49 blocks have been is 49 percent better than that. And 5 million was dedicated to curve ramps with one hundred and 21 and the project guess what, able to projection one hundred and 27 for the goal it work is complete a of the work still underway for the portion of bond program is forest plaza with 5 million dedicated to structures for the plazas the goal for the maintenance and repairs of 11 structures and one plaza at that time 16 structures are completed. Thats kind of our update and jointly i will say this is a very much coordinated effort moan theyre and kathy and very great about providing update on the status of various projects by the comprehensive bond program so very much chair izant the partners to date and looking to future updates. Thank you. laughter . Thank you, member sanderlin. I have one question you mentioned the one hundred and 72 step downs on Treasure Island what is three referring to . Anyone know that. Raise the same question. Curious enough to follow up own that i followuped we talked about the low i have an idea what it means but not only what they were specifically but how many they have planned how many they build and more they have planned closer to opening up . So when i get the information ill be happy to share. Okay. It is all Supportive Housing so unintelligible . All right. Any other questions from Committee Members . Okay. Thank you, natasha can you take Public Comment. Public comment wishing to make Public Comment please line up at the podium now limited to 3 minutes per speaker no Public Comment. Move on to item number 8 david a. Jensen, Whistleblower Program manager. Good morning member crawford and public commissioners my name is is david a. Jensen, Whistleblower Program manager. With me is our director mark and with me is steve and eric of the Whistleblower Program thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today and give you a couple of updates and some of the information youve not seen before so well gear to go through that as quickly and possible of the Whistleblower Program is a program that is authorized by the state and local legislation. Next slide, please. Some of this legislation spelled out within and misuse of the city fund by the city offers and the delivery of Government Services and the and the enabling legislation spells other what is not in the jurisdiction to investigate and two oat city departments are involved and go to the. Next slide, please. To help us do this we were professionals to handle these reports that we received and that includes some of the Small Business has paralegal certification and it is Diverse Program we are politically to any number of situations we remove reports become historically and generally an upward trend since the programs inception 10 years. Ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. As we go or save those towards the end but again generally upward trends as people know more about the program. Next slide, please. Before you is the data about the most recently quarter loss on december 21st of 2023 and had 92 reports at the beginning of the quarter that is surcharge september 30th. And but we resolved one hundred and 28 reports and closed out and at the end of quarter december 31st there were 73 reports. For this. Next slide, please. We continued to be able to receive reports in a new number of ways for people interested and we can take reports we are online portal 311 goes twentyfour hours a day and we want the lowest barrier of entry as possible and back to a phase well take the information, however, you want to get it to us and happy to take that and determine whether or not that is something within our jurisdiction. Member crawford had a question about reporters choosing most people continue to choose to report unanimously that is up to the reporter and work with them to take the information from them and were here to receive that information and respond to it. The next slide, please. Weve got for you is regarding the goal to close 75 of the reports and right now were doing well with that and 80 closing out reports we received in 90 days and if we go back hiv the bars on that graph towards the right hand are a little bit higher and make focus to do so in closing out the reports that have been los angeles wishing and in deed is about the type of reports were able to investigate and some information weve got there for about the reports within that orange box and the remainder we have charter required for the people within the city can be for example, the District Attorneys Office reported a crime to the police department. Or it can be we are a report about somebody hired both Civil Service inappropriately in that process go to dhr for the types of report and other reports are greatest hits sort of. Contacted have a way for example, for the reports we didnt investigate clearly out of our jurisdiction the one i remember most clearly a complaint somebody brought to us about a ticket they received in new york not within our jurisdiction. The next slide, please. For you is the percent of the investigative reports with a corrective action for the employee discipline and a policy change could be. What is remarkable across the 10 years well have done on that graph for about to 40 percent the reports we received and investigated and some type of corrective action for the system or a corrected action again, a staff member and discipline to conclude termination. Next slide, please. We have for you about some of the initiative for fy202223 and on the desire to close 75 parks 90 days. We also have been issuing the quarterly reports ones the activity that is more recently the tube report between three 7 days and asked to pick up a case on that report issued we were able to do so by focusing on that and um, pretty proud of that we were able to get it out as quickly this time around the next one on the list is the training of our City Employee any any employee for hiring gos through a short module for all employees for once a year 5 minutes or so gives the basic information and we have a availability for the departments that request is that 15 or thirty minute for staffing and divisions we can take the show on the road and scale that up and down but reach that for q and a that is what we have found to be the most available for available for the employees and next on the list is a Department Training we conduct annually and the next one is for the 10 of april and over here is welcome to attend should get an invitation if not let us know well send the link we have liaisons for all departments we have for expertise and then what weve ama to do this time around to issue liaisons to each other and thinking about the report we had with a parking situation in front of a city facility the department decided it was appropriate for the employees to park in front of that facility didnt sound right to us, we checked with the liaisons and taking a look at and got a different answer in the one from the department so making that connection continue the department is something we hope to do every single day when he pick up the phone and talk with the liaisons to establish a connection so they know we have a question about, about fire safety that will be the topic the next training we got coming up and after that, we are asked to do a couple of webinars and present on the best practices in hotlines and other programs. The next one on the 17 of april will be a representative from the Audits Office how to make hotline more effective and that also be the 17 of april you should be on the distribution list. And we typically get over one hundred participants from the local and state and tribal lands agencies weve had people come in across north america and the 10 oclock and an ongoing review the programs and policies to finetune everything on the books to insure were update with the programs and policies and responding to the situation as they change covid changed everything for everybody including us as we respond to the every changing circumstances on the ground we tweet the best practices and so this is something were taking a look at be as flexible as we can to respond to the matters and finally, left a couple of place holders to get ahold of us, we are invite please feel free get in touch our job is so to answer and thank you for your time and ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. One question. Slide 9 shot the aging of the items and were 5 were still two hundred mrs. Days in the resolution are you at liberty to discuss. The expectation is sooner rather than later, however, that expectation is not always met. Can a number of reasons to go longer than and most often those 5 that are hanging out there um, are often complaints about Law Enforcement that arent appropriately attached to the department of police affordability for example, if we have a complaint about a post certified staff member whether police or sheriff go through a different process and that can go on a little bit longer. Other times have an employee we need to speak to who is out on leave and not related to the undermined conduct can be another reason for the vocations stone a little bit longer than for the 90 days we strive for but each report is different those are some of the circumstances by which the complaint take longer than the 90 days. Thank you. Anyone else. Thank you dave and the enar tire would be staff. Any way to increase the goals next year of 75 percent closed it seems to me you are meeting or speeding it goal every year so 75 percent of cases closed within 90 days i guys are usually at historically we have been. Yeah. Weve got a great bunch of people helping us. And if we are fog to try to improve the programs and policies and take a look at that any time of the day is, you know, conditions on the ground but certainly something we want to take a look at it and happy to have that discussion with you when we meet in a couple of weeks. Yeah. Appropriate to change to. Okay. Great. All right. Any other questions for the Whistleblower Team . Natasha Public Comment. Inperson comment on that, please line up at the podium now and limited to 3 minutes per speaker for the record no Public Comments. I did receive one comment for this item via email ahead of this meeting ill read the current whistleblower report shows that some complaint are referred to were told how many of complaints go to the departments and others are referred out by law and other complaints are referred to the departments those cosource investigations are own seen by Whistleblower Program and the investigative claims the numbers are suspect and disclosing that investigation to clarify the balance between the investigation disclosing most are sent to the oversight conflict of interest and the breakdown of cases by the staff versus those referred for self investigation and monitor and thats the only Public Comment we received this evening. All right. Thank you move on to item number 9 please. Action opportunity for Committee Members to comment or take action on any matters within the committees jurisdiction. Audits unit. Public integrity. Good morning, Committee Members and member crawford and director of audit for for the work since youre last meeting month january 8, 2024, through november 30, 2028, weve not issued any public deliverables since then and however working on a number of related assessments one six which will be issuing in the coming weeks related to the San Francisco Public Utilities commission purchasing progress a Public Integrity assessment and also working on the new public dignity assessment related to the september 2023 public complaint related to the Community Exchange Grant Program for the City Administrators Office and looking at the grant Fund Oversight of the relate to that incident. Also working on our third year annual report will be the status you have recommendations. Those are the key deliverables and another line of work providing city Attorneys Office with the investigations relating to contractors ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. Seeing none, item 9 d the City Services olney update ill provide the juptsz and natasha will provide the performance side and for csa we continue to the previous updates on the 202324 one of the key buckets of work we do in audits in assessment for example, issued in january an assessment of the invoices one of the madam city clerk, a number of engagements that we have related to nonprofits as well as for outlet audits are go bond those related audits we have three audits currently ongoing construction and close out of the projects. One at the port and Public Utilities commission. We have our ongoing audits of key business preys for procurement and related guist cards leases and other mandated work and as previously noted on the Whistleblower Program is noting another work our team works on and another related matter is a covid and winter storms cost responsibilities serves as as citywide Cost Recovery week whenever an emergency or disaster we continue in submitting our reimbursements ferry the covid disaster and as far as recent incidents we continue to adhere to the the gospel of jesus christ standards and vision will be under going the peer review in july of 2024 as part of the of governing standards report and any questions for the csa before iim going to turn it over to natasha. Good morning natasha since the last meeting in the meeting materials we published an annual report in the performance you measurements key factor in our charter mandate we issued an annual report on all measures for the city departments over 800 each department has a set of goals and have a team that worked with the department to workshop others measures and then beginning this spring we work with the departments and the Mayors Office on any targeted that goes into the mayors book on june 1st, we try to put highlights a see the forest for the trees in the meeting and issued the annual report and the parks remain stable as 91 percent of the meeting maintenance standards. The general a park is meeting an acceptable standard at 85 percent and 9 out of 10 parks are at that level this give the rec and park good information about which parks are are under performing at parks related to custodians and continue to work closely with them and building out dashboards for the Quarterly Results come in and the our city our home program this city Performance Group manages issued the annual report that is excuse me details 200 and 95, 7 million that was spent for the funds and in this report we reported that 27 thousand plus households received services through the funds. And bright on line additional 1,000 plus units. We also issued the nonprofit fiscal year monitoring annual report this koofrz we work with 12 different departments to take a look at nonprofits will have contracts with multiple departments or one department over one Million Dollars so in the pool we had one hundred and 97 nonprofits that account for one that side plus billion dollars . 92 percent of nonprofits pending in the city we need the place 4 nonprofits on elevated concerns working with them on the policy and working with that in that nonprofit how to meet the areas they did not meet. Upcoming have a few items being issued were been working with the department of health looking at Treatment Facilities acquisitions what are some of the concerns for the behavorial Health Capacity this is taking a look at everything from the city buildings facilities for this city giving money to nonprofits, city providing loans to nonprofits and how can the city expand these needed services . We are planning to issue hospital ambulance diversion working with the emergency medical agencies for for the considerations causing delays for hospitals im sorry ambulances and able to enter into the Emergency Rooms for results for strategies to try to review this complex system not just the city partner but also the private hospitals and private ambulance agencies. A as well as Mental Health taking a look at the key staffing positions both by the city and nonprofits look at some of the vacancies issues are and hiring strategies we can do as the city to increase um, that capacity for that important area and continue to do a lot of the work not actually published necessarily we can try to provide summaries to show but the just the end of february were starting the work plan for the fiscal year that starts july 1st and doing that with audits and share the budget to insure we are across both sides addressing issues across the city and looking forward to having a new controller sworn in on thursday greg wagner from the district the chief operating officer and works well were excited to have him and today, were going to have a team give highlights of an upcoming report on the go bond reporter and im going to turn it over to them in a second unless questions for me on this update . Ben is leaving. Ben is leaving yes. I might have that wrong. This is his last day on theirs. Well, im excited go by and say goodbye to gwen e ben. Hell be moving to a different position. Hes not retiring. Ill try to get by. When you report out on the various departments performs measures, what is the what if a department didnt meet the obligation. Thats a great question. We try to make sure the information is public so the information can be commissioners should be the Department Heads to know how theyre doing the board of supervisors the Mayors Office tend to use this if we print this in the book it tends to be but often hearing related to a particular topic. Natasha one question. With the departments working with nonprofits monitoring they receive it might have been two or three meetings ago we discussed the financial but their discussion when constitutes the timing. The definition is the most recent fiscal year and the reason nonprofit can be on different fiscal years, etc. So when we are doing fiscal year reporting we have a defined fiscal year has to be the most recent fiscal year for that we dont want it to be within two months but a six months buffer new end december of 2022 for example, as a nonprofit when we are monitoring fiscal year necessary that end june necessary that p then that required for the one that ends december 2022. They have to provide a financial audit within the fiscal year. Yes. Okay. Ill bring up the team here and. Good morning. Im jason to introduce the team and city performing we still have a lot more work to do or working hard on the general Obligation Bond report. So i will introduce my colleagues as was pull up the slides so this is um, was originally an annual report doing it reporting on biannual basis the last time you saw this report was a while ago that will cover from july 2021 through june 2023. And we will um, this will be organized similar to the report go going into each bond in detail and talking through the citywide issues were discovered and brought into our previous work and um, will be talking about the updates and include a watch list with that, publishing in the next month or so and we are happy to take questions if you like us to bring in the report but today will be the highlight im going to turn it over to for my colleagues disgust methodology. Thank you. Thank you. With the Performance Team ill be starting by briefly going have not methodology for the work we need the on the bonds is currently no way we started early fall and getting information from bond Program Managers on budget and after the Initiative Data did interviews and summarizes that information into our draft report we are in the final phases of that right now have sent green drafts to the project managers well be presenting some of the initial finding here. So if youre familiar with the report a lot of the voishdz will look familiar to you not a lot has changed similar to last year focusing on the budget to schedule the changes in the visible on the top left with the original projected end data for the components with the end date provided at the of gin 2021 and projected as of june 30th, 2023, and for the narrated we focused on the changes and on the bottom right that is on the encompasses we are looking at the budget with the original budget would have been expended and you issued as of june 2023 and what is remaining at that time. rustling of papers. this is a visible from our executive summary that shows the bond programs 8 we define as active slow are two fell anti since the last report were considering that is the 2014 and 2015 Affordable Housing with the 15 percent remaining um, so they have mostly in the administrative close out we covered them briefly in the budget and not going into the schedule in the report. So this chart it is an offering of the by the end programs and in this a 2020 recovery and the total authorization half a billion dollars. All right. And so we basically but put the bonds out two, that we have in the park and Health Recovery general Obligation Bond program and so this is very highlevel financial summary that is encumbered so two active health general Obligation Bonds the 2012 have um, a combined total of three hundred and 76 and a half as of june 30th, 2023, rustling of papers. and then the two active um, Affordable Housing golden programs that is construction and preservation of Affordable Housing really thorough summary as earlier this is the 2019 Affordable Housing in 2016 we cover the 2015 Affordable Housing briefly and again, were not covering it in the report. And just to say a slight typo three hundred and 16 and a half Million Dollars well be updating that and not 520 million. Okay. And here on the three active Public Safety and safety bonds the seawall and 2016 Public Safety and this is the largest policy and with the had and 57 and a half Million Dollars you remaining in the 200014 and lastly, the transportation go bond with one hundred and 19. 4 million remaining on june 20th, 2023, and all right. Again, if youre familiar with the last report we also included a section of the report watch list so focusing really on the schedule of different components of each bond what we saw if year 21 components that are delayed compared to 13 component from the last report. So a go to some of those the 2012 mp the Neighborhood Parks two years from the last report there are i think three projects contributing to the delays, however, i think all of those are fully open to the public. And the port that manages the waterfront parks component is having issues with the which is connected with the landing that is delayed contributing to those delays. For the 2016 safety three components are delayed, you know, as you know there are pretty unique with the loan program compared to the other bond programs and the blended funding so the compacts for three component same time is why theyre all three a delayed and what we heard in the team this is Interest Rate environment and going through that today an increase that delays the last um, issuance of funds. All right. And for um, the 2019 Affordable Housing the components 4 have exercising delays there are zero in that far right column more ambitious timeline in the last report and going gone back to that other timeline that is why there is hopefully to avoid confusion all the others are proceeding as plans but that in that too year timeframe and coordinating with the funding gaps, however, is proceeding as planned i think one project that was noted as having issues which was the laguna honda hospital senior Housing Project i think that was the last of temporary accommodations and for the 2020 health and recovery new agencies to here we want to note there is some slight delays since you issuance so manages the Neighborhood Park components and that delays was due to coordinating additional funding to scope out and figure out the final neighborhood projects. Um, and for the street structures and plazas i think slight delays it is because it is being determined because determine how to best allocate those funds and i will pass this to guy to go through the rest of the lecture. Good morning, commissioners. Ill be talking about the Public Safety and Transportation Fund starting off with the 20146 components delayed since the last report one thing to note with the mta they contain a lot of projects while the component of a full may seem like its delayed some are complete and there over 50 percent of those projects are completed and the first component accessibility that is the bart improvement that will be completed in 2026 and the caltrans will be completed in 2024 and the Public Safety safety bond the main component is a year since the last report that project is delayed because of difficulties around scheduling as an active hospital so Construction Team has to coordinate with the um, and then as well as the building from the 19 San Francisco Police Commission caltrans a number of unforeseen conditions with the discretionary review each time have to go to the state department and moving to the 2020 easter bond starting with the fighting water system that component to update the neglectful of pipelines and this project has been delayed to supply chain issues where um, the some of the materials have taken over a year to arrive on site. And moving to the neighborhood fire stations this component is building a new fire tank that was delayed to staff turn out at Public Utilities commission as well as ongoing negotiations for Public Utilities commission and fire department. Moving to the Disaster Response facility that component is the updates and this component was delayed to need for more robust site assessments than originally anticipated for the top graphic facilities at the site and in addition to that, the site for the team had to work with the Planning Department and had to work the architectural architect so the Architect Company was sold to twelve x so finding a replacement for the architect took time. So that concludes our active view the golden and talking about the issues brought up in the last report so we those issues were identified and the bond project managers if those issues gotten better . Or stayed the same or gotten worse . Those issues are largely unchanged for example, the city is hiring requirement means it can be difficult for teams to find qualified contractors from time to time and also the low cost continues for an award method move on to permitting approvals we continue to see the processing times and some exceptions have allowed projects to advance more quickly than others and particularity homelessness and those project teams report a reduction of thirty percent moving to external sorry still internal the departments must continue to get approval from the commissions and many projects must be approved by public works and anytime tlirldz to be approved by the commission is a little bit low at 1 million that means that many smaller projects need approval by the commission so as to the project timelines as well. And lastly, external action approvals we heard that receiving the approval from external is pg e agencies is an issue. Next weve got bond planning so prebond funding is useful but the amount is limited and the project not grown this will continue to be an issue. And then estimate have come down since precovid highs there are tools that the teams use to estimate the costs and so sometimes, the estimates cve they receive from vendors is different and Capital Administration departments use a decentralized tool. And the citys contractor valuation is not used an under evaluation and moving to the deferred maintenance it continues to grow so this will continue to grow as we go along. And lastly, the city lacks the constant maintenance it contributes to a lack of keeping up the city facilities. That concludes our overview of the citywide issued as part of this group our group took a we spoke with 6 cities and so this also satisfies the charter mandated that is were required to benchmark San Francisco against other cities. And then in those discussions we concluded that generally most of the cities are facing similar issues and the city motorcyclists are looking at the capital delivery this benchmarking effort will help theyre efforts as well. Next slide, please. And so those are some of the topic areas we interviewed the districts and for more detailed for the benchmarking you can find that in the published report as that comes out. And that concludes my presentation. Any questions . In discussing the way this is covers every type of delay that is a project might encounter is it also include contracting classes in terms of something that the city caused . And results in really large center charges for the incarcerating you pay more money how much of what you are discussing is that. I believe that does include all of those delays as well. Those are. For the information that was in the three schedule the watch list you are referring to. Im sorry. For one were discussing those delays thats what youre referring to . Okay. Yeah. multiple voices. so the delays the projected ones we received into the. 17. Scheduling of meetings, other events. Those include all types of plans so could be a bunch of that included in those delays . Correct. Are there steps city is talking to reduce the amount of delays into a quarter inch among the agencies from loans to lack of coordination . Cooperation. Yes. It is definitely an important area. You want to take this one. Thank you for that question. In our report we have highlighted delays due to interdepartmental cooperation confessor external both sides and highlighting those reports in several areas weve seen some bright spots of better coordination but areas well try to highlight in the report and continue to monitor and incorporate into our projects over the next coming fiscal years. Well follow that with interest. Is this report one you presented is available . I dont see it in the package i looked at. It is the final link in the agenda. I believe. And could have easily missed that ill go back. Okay. Thank you. I have a question about the benchmarking study. How long did that take and how often do you do that according to the charter was the mandatory. It is fairly high lovely didnt require is us to have a benchmark but again the to the bieber in the charter mandates we had a variety of types of benchmarking as some of the qualitative benchmarking not, you know, a comparison of performers and metrics across multiple jurisdictions we do that benchmarking in another areas and so we have we do benchmarking as part of the projects and a stand alone projects a variety will be covered in the Performance Plan in the following year. How long did that take this one. This one i think we started um, developing the interviews and contracts and figuring out who the jurisdictions for the sunlight matter at the beginning of summer and interviews optimistic of the summer and it takes time you have to get people on peoples calendar and leaving on vacations so this took time and wrapped up in a couple of months i think of work. Question . Slide 11 the second yes i looked through and say the second box in that item was proving to be a constant 0 problem is a solution like recognizable bidding process the contractors are submitting bids on the projects and have to go through a survey own the Performance History any kind of violations or violations and how well, theyre put together does it show theyre ahead of game and getting the materials instead of the lowest responsible contractor. Yeah. So city departments use a variety of the contracting methods in this case were highlighting the low cost option for the contracting yes 1962 a concern and something we continue to see we talk about with the project manager and shareholders factors for the performances that not restricted to low cost bidding by little departments are monitoring very closely. They monitor and watch that and. I cant speak on behalf of the departments but im issue we plan to cover in the report and Incorporated Part of the work programming for the support we can provide to the departments in the future and speaking out loud. Does the city taxpayer money like structure that is part of the process for when this money is given to the projects and background noise. responsible bidding microphone distorted . As far as i know the department could those reviews had celebrating contract but might go with the lowest cost due to financial reasons but cant comment on behalf of the departments. That is the um, what is that . That they try to save money to show and right. Thats correct. laughter. a difficult challenge. Appreciate the response. Thank you. One more question and falls on the comments made earlier today about every head a comment on capital programs and Necessary Services to execute do you look at how the overhead is allocated in the city and individualness of that and follows a standard or other guidelines in the past life we look to cycle have you accessed that. Weve for the assesses it in this particular report but it is um, an interesting cap of the conversation and happy to take a look at it and look at that important a future work planning. Okay. At the. Um, and being covered from the industry it is that much of a difficulty or the contractors dont want to try there is a lot of availableness in the city and county of San Francisco to meet those. Yeah. So much here we do so much to help contractors is hire locally have you seen any specific the contractors are not from this area because contractors are out of the bay area and. Position one of the many examples and well cover in mower daily youre right a lot of programs we have in the city that um, help contractors with um, their requirements um, and so um, while not an in depth xhoosht how one issues impacts those are questions we can continue to raise in the report thats a valid point but provided to help people to meet those um, those goals so well definitely be interested in diving deeper in the report. I forget that is the highlight. Yeah. As an example. One other question you mentioned some of the departments are problems with the bidding process. A state law there are alternate methods of procurement they could use for example, and negotiated in some situations. And i think there their experience has been good and speaking of this experiences both sides yeah, it is competitively bid but lowest compliments and complaints and you the owner of the city in this case could have negative experience going back decades with the same contractors and their response is and they did job is things like prequalify and going to negotiate be procurement process eliminations some of the problems. When would our recommendations include things like that or is that beyond our purview. Those are different procurement methods weve seen and one of the challenges we have several departments um, who are leveraging some of the procurement tools we have defer between specialist departments that is another reason why some of the challenges that the departments are facing um, and in their implementation. Um, so we see difference between the departments with a variety of contracting methods and supportive for the as comprehensive um, north africa were trying to highlight at a and would you unintelligible . But whatever you can do worthwhile. Appreciate that. Can you pile up slide 6. Yeah. Were missing something. Um, maybe slide 5. Okay. Yeah, im curious about the choices for the 2020 bond issuance in the entirety and discussion and not include the 200 million for the housing section. This is a. This is question weve discussing extensively an expansion and scope bond we put it in this slide and taking feedback on how to um, incorporate it into the report and recommendations for very open to our suggestions. I this that is tricky but i would think as member of the public more interested in knowing another 200 million Affordable Housing. I appreciate that and we can consider breaking down the component and putting in the appropriate subject area and comprehensive look at the bond will be be appropriate chartered to highlight the various parts of the report. Any other questions . Thank you all thank you. Thank you. All righty good morning. Im with the kr0er78d and pleasure to be here and do have a couple of updates on the debt calendar as of december most timely one general Obligation Bond so introduced for the supervisors meeting on february 6th and in 2024 we expect that resolution appropriation ordinance to board on march 24th and given that o p f will expect to calendar year so the second update for the calendar is that later in the fiscal year 25 we expect to issue the final issuance of 2019 housing bond so and im here to answer any questions. Questions . And ties with the fact we got go bonds for is your Office Monitoring or when. Generally speaking before we get to the super of generally general Obligation Bonds well have a report and as the bonds are issued and departments are spending down you monitor how close they are to the three year specialize. No, we certainly stand with the communication and have funds sitting in the account we work with them and cant make them spend their money but and we reading in certain trainings so, yeah from the public aspect we cant make the projects work like that. Are there any programs passed their three year contracts. You know, why have a comprehensive list off the top of my head but can followup. Okay. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. From the item 6 our calendar final item 6 our calendar. Ill have to get back to you its on the computer the next meeting well have in april to review the topics. Um, are there any questions . Open any item in this section . With the work plan thats what youre trying to bring up. Yes. But im seeing it not on the website i cant find that right now. Pull it up but read for Public Comment . Discussion no. Go ahead Public Comment. Members of the public who wish to provide inperson Public Comment on this item please line up at the podium limited to 3 minutes per speaker. For the record no members of the public on Public Comment. So i guess our last item to adjourn. Yes. . I move to adjourn. Great. Thank you. [meeting adjourned] at 2 30 and right on time. multiple voices. [meeting adjourned] shared spaces have transformed San Franciscos adjacent sidewalks, local business communities are more resilient and their Neighborhood Centers are more vibrant and mildly. Sidewalks and parking lanes can be used for outdoor seating, dining, merchandising, and other community activities. Were counting on operators of shared spaces to ensure their sites are safe and accessible for all. People with disabilities enjoy all types of spaces. 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Cable covers or cable ramps can create tripping hazards and difficulties for wheelchair users so they are not permitted on sidewalks. Instead, electrical cables should run overhead at least ten feet above sidewalk. These updates to the shared Spaces Program will help to ensure safety and accessibility for everyone, so that we can all enjoy these public spaces. More information is available at sf. Govt shared spaces. Youre watching San Francisco rising with chris manors. Todays special guest is mary chu. Hi. Im chris manors, and youre rising on San Francisco rising. The show thats focused on rebuilding, reimagining, and restarting our city. Our guest today is mary chu, and shes here to talk with us about art and the San Francisco art commission. Well come, miss chu. Thanks for having me. Its great to have you. Lets talk about art in the city and how art installations are funded. The Arts Committee was funded in 1932 and support civic review, design investments and art galleries. Projects we have are funded by the citys art enrichment ordinance which provides 2 of Construction Costs for public art. So art is tied to construction. Theres been a great deal in the southwest of the city. Can you talk about some of the projects there . Sure. Our city has some exciting projected in the bayviewhunters point coming up. One artist created a photo collage. In the picture pavilion, one artist formed a collage of her oneyear residency coming together with residents, and anchoring the new center is a landmark bronze sculpture, inspired by traditional ivory coast currency which the artists significantly enlarges to mark that its a predominantly African American community in bayview hunters point. Are there any art installations around town that uses light as a medium . Yes. The first is on van ness between ofarrell and geary. Its funded with the m. T. A. S van ness geary street project. Another project is for the central subway. It is one of ten artworks commissioned for the new line. Its over 650 feet long, consists of 550 l. E. D. Panels between the powell street station and the union street station. Its called lucy in the sky, and the lights are patterned with unique sequences so that commuters can experience a unique pattern each time they pass through. Perfect. What about the early day sculpture that was removed from the civic center . This is a question that cities have been grappling with nationwide. Following the removal of early days in 2018, there was a toppling of statues in Golden Gate Park as well as the removal of the Christopher Columbus statue. We are partnering with the Parks Department as well as the community to engage with the public to develop guidelines to evaluate the existing monuments and memorials in the civic arts collection and evaluate the removal of a monument or statue but also installing new ones. Finally, it seems like the weather might be nice this weekend. If i fancy taking a walk and seeing some outdoor art, where would you suggest i go . Well, i would suggest the embarcadero. This work was commissioned with funds from the fire station 35. This suggests the bow of a boat and the glass panel surrounding the structure depict the history of fireboats in the bay area. And where can i go from there . Then, i would walk up to the Justin Herman plaza to check out the work of the art vendors. Then check out the monuments like the mechanics monument. Also, be sure to check out the poster series, installed in bus kiosks along market street, which features four artists each year. Well, thank you. I appreciate you coming on the show, miss chu. Thank you for your time today. Thank you, chris. Thats it for this episode. Well be back with another show shortly. For San Francisco t. V. , im chris manors. Thanks for watching. Television the filling that on Encouragement Center offers Community Resources is to the Community Efforts for the heritage. 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